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Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?)

I'm in the UK so use a bunch of sites here. What I have noticed is that only large active sites by big companies and orgs actually have cookie notices.

None of the other countless sites actually have it at all. So I'm wondering how long it will be before people just stop putting these things up at all?

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It's not (yet). Typical 'Big Gov' solution. Extra dumb are websites that force you to accept the cookies each and every time you visit them. Oh yeah, even the government's own sites are not all up to date.

Not really our government's fault though; to their credit they did actually try and fight it a bit. IIRC our regulation (in the UK) has a few differences from the EU one.

All EU countries implement all EU law slightly differently (just look the EU Working Time Directive). EU law just gives the minimum that countries have to do.

From looking into it myself, it looks like UK implementation is stricter than e.g. Irish one.

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OK, comment has been deleted, I therefore edit mine out.

Errmmm, you seem to not understand what cookies are for...

I did some screen-scraping research, and it turns out that the top visited domains (as defined by Alexa) actually set a fair amount of cookies:

Visualization and data is here: http://www.demo.hauthaus.net/eurobake/#

Does anybody know if this is actually being enforced in any way? (The cookie law that is?)

I don't know. But just FYI, it would be the local data protection commissioner that would be in charge of enforcing this law AFAIK.

no it isn't, check this out http://nocookielaw.com/

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